Outta Space

Beginning as the song Let's Get Rockin' from 1977, Outta Space has been fattened up and hydrated. What's interesting, however, is that, fter all these years, it's something of a vocal vs guitar battle between Roth and Eddie - where the two butting heads even way back when?

There's a bit of On Fire flavor, but now it's made amorphous. Despite recognizable flashes, one can't easily detect standard songcraft - and that's not a knock, either; it's thrilling to revel in the ways Van Halen burn up the road behind them.

And hey, is that a Hot For Teacher nod? Absolutely. It's there in the ascending pattern Alex and Wolf dig into that underpins Ed's solo.